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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the weather during the first growing season that Okonkwo starts share-cropping for Nwakibie?
(a) The best growing weather ever: yams flourish with the nightly rains and sunny days.
(b) The worst in memory: late rains and scorching sun kill the yams, then torrential downpours wash the seeds away.
(c) The beginning of the season is poor weather for growing yams, but the second planting of the season grows huge yams, sweet and plump.
(d) Some good days, and some bad: the yams grow, but not to their potential. Some days were too hot and some rains too severe.

2. How does eighteen-year-old, Okonkwo, bring honor to his village?
(a) He throws the great wrestler, Amalinze the Cat.
(b) He plays his flute in the village after the harvest.
(c) He has a barn full of yams.
(d) He has no patience with unsuccessful men.

3. Nwoye's mother calls Ezinma "Ezigbo" when she brings the fire to Nwoye's mother's hut. What does "Ezigbo" mean?
(a) Good work
(b) Helpful child
(c) Good girl
(d) The good one

4. What is the decision of the egwugwu after hearing the case for Mgbafo's family against Uzowulu?
(a) Uzowulu is warned never to beat a woman again or he will be mutilated.
(b) The bride-price is not to be paid back to Uzowulu.
(c) The bride-price is to be returned to Uzowulu.
(d) Uzowulu is to bring a pot of wine to Mgbafo's family and beg that his wife be returned to him. Mgbafo's family is to return her to Uzowulu when he brings the wine to them.

5. Where does Chielo bring Ezinma?
(a) To where dead children are buried
(b) Deep into the forest
(c) To the yam fields
(d) To the village of Umuachi, then turns around and continues back to the hills of Agbala

6. Who is the first man Okonkwo works for as a share-cropper ?
(a) Ogbuefi Udo
(b) Agbala
(c) Nwakibie
(d) Okoye

7. What descends on the land of Okonkwo, darkens the sky, settles on the rooftops, and breaks mighty tree branches under them?
(a) A flock of vultures
(b) The arrows of neighboring enemies
(c) A swarm of locusts
(d) The spirits of the clans ancestors

8. Why does Nwakibie trust Okonkwo to farm his yam seeds?
(a) He can tell by looking at Okonkwo that he is a hard worker, unlike many young men of the village.
(b) He always believs big, strong men are trustworthy.
(c) He asks other people of the village if Okonkwo can be trusted.
(d) He figures he can charge Okonkwo for the seeds with interest if the crop failed.

9. How do the women of the clan prepare for the Feast of the New Yam?
(a) They cleanse their bodies, wear a simple robe and sandles, and scrub their faces. They are to go to the festival free of all paint, jewelry, or ornamentation of any kind.
(b) They gather in the marketplace to share all their clothing, jewelry and sandals with one another. They wear each others belongings to prove to the goddess, Ani, that they are worthy people.
(c) They scrub the walls and huts with red earth, draw patterns on them in white, yellow and green, paint themselves with cam wood, and draw black patterns on their stomach and backs.
(d) They decorate robes with intricate patterns made of colored beans, plaite each others hair, color their faces with red clay, and make veils to cover their faces during the festival.

10. How does Okonkwo react to the disastrous growing season that destroy all his yams and the yams of his people?
(a) He gives up being a farmer, and begins looking for a new trade.
(b) His heart is broken from the loss of his crop, leaving him depressed and suicidal.
(c) He feels he can survive anything, since he has survived this disastrous year.
(d) He cries and sinks into despair.

11. Okonkwo and the men of Umuofia take Ikemefuna deep into the forest and kill him with machetes. Who gives the final thrust of the machete that ends Ikemefuna's life?
(a) Okonkwo
(b) Nwoye
(c) Ogbuefi Ezendu
(d) Okafo

12. What is the agreed upon bride-price for Akueke?
(a) A she-goat, a hen, and ten cowries
(b) Five bags of cowries and one hundred yam seeds
(c) Ten woven baskets of yams
(d) Twenty bags of cowries

13. When Okonkwo was a boy, his father, Unoka, consults Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills, about why his crops always fail.. What reply did the Oracle give?
(a) That Unoka sows his yams on exhausted land rather than making the effort to clear new land.
(b) That Unoka has offended the gods and that is why his crop fail.
(c) That he should stay home and offer sacrifices to the gods.
(d) That he angers his ancestors and they plague his land.

14. How are the children of the village prepared for the Feast of the New Yam?
(a) Their entire bodies are painted with cam wood and no clothing is worn to the festival.
(b) Their bodies are rubbed with palm oil, and their hair is decorated with kola nut shells.
(c) Their heads are shaved in beautiful patterns.
(d) They are washed in the riverbed three times the day before the festival, and then dressed in simple robes.

15. How does Unoka react when Okoye asks him to repay the two hundred cowries owed to him?
(a) He tells Okoye that he would be paid before anyone else.
(b) He promises to repay the money without delay.
(c) He offers kola nuts as repayment instead of money.
(d) He bursts out laughing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Okonkwo is very prosperous, owning a large compound with many huts, and an abundance of food. Ikemefuna is given to Okonkwo to live with him until the clan decides Ikemefuna's fate. How does Ikemefuna react to living with Okonkwo?

2. What does Okagbue, the medicine man, dig up from under the orange tree that makes the people of the village believe that Ezinma will live to adulthood?

3. Who appears in front of Ekwefi as she waits tearfully outside Agbala's cave?

4. Ezinma tells her mother, Ekwefi, that her upper eyelid is twitching. What does Ekwefi tell Ezinma the significance of the twitch is?

5. What are the crops that are considered women's crops by the people of Umuofia?

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